Forget robot teachers, adaptive intelligent tutors and smart essay marking software — these are not the future of artificial intelligence in education but merely a step along the way. The real power that AI brings to education is connecting our learning intelligently to make us smarter in the way we understand ourselves, the world and how we teach and learn. For the first time we will be able to extend, develop and measure the complexity of human intelligence — an intellect that is more sophisticated than any AI. This will…
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Light bulb vibrations yield eavesdropping data !!
In an era of digital eavesdropping where hackers employ a variety of means to take over built-in video cameras, peruse personal digital data and snoop on cellular conversations, researchers have finally seen the light. Israeli researchers report that they successfully tapped into speech & music inside an apartment simply by focusing on a light bulb.In a paper published over the weekend, the researchers said all they needed were a telescope and a $400 optical sensor, which they used to measure barely perceptible light bulb vibrations triggered by either voices or…
Read MoreEngineers put tens of thousands of artificial brain synapses on a single chip !!
MIT engineers have designed a “brain-on-a-chip,” smaller than a piece of confetti, that is made from tens of thousands of Artificial brain synapses known as memristors — silicon-based components that mimic the information-transmitting synapses in the human brain. The researchers borrowed from principles of metallurgy to fabricate each memristor from alloys of silver and copper, along with silicon. When they ran the chip through several visual tasks, the chip was able to “remember” stored images and reproduce them many times over, in versions that were crisper and cleaner compared with…
Read MoreLockdown forces small Indian companies to look big time at WhatsApp !!
If it hadn’t adopted new technology the way it did, Freshokartz, a Jaipur-based e-commerce marketplace for fruits & vegetables that directly procures produce from farms, would have counted itself among the many casualties of the overnight lockdown. “Our company’s nature of work is to meet farmers in person and resolve their farming issues,” founder and CEO Rajendra Lora, adding how at the beginning of the lockdown it became almost impossible to reach out to the farmers because of the restrictions on inter-state travel. While it had been using WhatsApp to…
Read MoreWest Bengal Introduces Software to Keep Track of Staff Working From Home !!
The West Bengal government has come up with a Software to monitor the performance of its employees working from home amid the COVID-19 scenario, a senior official said on Monday. The state’s department of finance is using the software on an experimental basis, he said. “If the results are satisfactory, we will put this to use in other departments,” the official said. State government employees should not violate office hours “thinking that it will get unnoticed because he/she is at home,” he added. “The employees have to log in to…
Read MoreHow Machine Learning, A.I. Might Change Education !!
Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies such as computer vision and Machine Learning (ML) are providing new ways to revolutionize learning and skills training at universities. From doctorate degrees in Machine Learning (ML) to bots that aid the work of teachers, there’s accelerating intrerest at the college level in A.I. and ML. Research firm TechNavio projects that the AI, market in education will grow by a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of close to 48% from 2018 to 2022 (the study also noted the role of chatbots in enhancing learning—hopefully that technology pans…
Read MoreDigital is the Key to Unlock this Disruption !!
Mumbai: The Covid-19 pandemic has accelerated several global business trends in favour of digitalization & focussing on digital avenues and collaborating beyond boundaries will be the stepping stones for the global economy to climb out of this disruption, said the keynote speakers at ET Unwired Reimagining Business Series on Thursday. Sir Martin Sorrell, executive chairman, S4 Capital and founder WPP, said that India is in the midst of a shopping revolution. The multi-billion-dollar investments by Facebook and several others in the telecom-technology-commerce triple play of Jio Platforms show that. “People…
Read MoreThese robotic dogs take fetch to a whole new level !!
Package delivery may be going to the dogs.In the race to automate the delivery of packages and food in urban areas, most companies have been focusing on wheeled robots. But the German automotive company Continental has another idea. At the consumer Electronics in Las Vegas last week, it showed off a four-legged delivery robot designed to walk packages right to customers’ front doors. In demonstrations at the Las Vegas Convention Center, the battery-powered ANYmal Robot — made by Swiss robotics manufacturer ANYbotics — hopped out of Continental’s CUbE autonomous vehicle, stepped…
Read MoreThe Rise Of Data : Data Science , Big Data And Data Analytics For Seamless Buisness Operations !!
Data, a four-letter word is the forerunner of a digital economy. Structured & unstructured data through emails, financial transaction numbers, audio files, web pages, business documents, and social media messages are mined to harness intelligent insights. Data forms the core of AI-powered Machine learning models. You will be surprised to know that humans generate more than 2.5 quintillion bytes of data every day, broken to 1.7 megabytes in just a second. Research estimates that over 6 billion smartphone users are looking at some form of data, and over 50 billion…
Read MoreUse of AI And VR In The Indian Education Sector !!
It’s not hot news that India has an intense lack of teachers at elementary, secondary and even at the more elevated levels of schools. As indicated by the numbers given by the Human Resource and Development (HRD) Ministry of India in 2016, there is a lack of 1 million educators across the nation. In Universities & Colleges, there is an endless deficiency of personnel and the issue of finding qualified individuals to fill this gap has turned out to be much more entangled. In such a situation, in what manner…
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